NHMRC Fellowships/Scholarships

The People Support funding group aims to provide funding to support the people required to complete health and medical research in Australia. The funding types available under the People Support funding group are:

Research Fellowship

The purpose of this scheme is to provide support for outstanding health and medical researchers to undertake research that is of major importance in its field and of significant benefit to Australian health and medical research. Research Fellowships offered by NHMRC are prestigious, highly competitive, sought after awards for high performing mid-career researchers. Recipients of Research Fellowships are generally in the top 10% of their field and are viewed as 'pushing the boundaries' of research.

Please refer to the NHMRC webpage for further information.

The submission dates for application review by the Research Office are as follows:

  • EOI emailed to Angela McPherson: Monday 7th January 2013
  • Draft applications due to Research Office: 10am Monday 21 January 2013 
  • Final applications due to Research Office*: 10am Tuesday 29 January 2013
  • NHMRC submission deadline: 5pm Wednesday 13 February 2013

*Please note applications received after the Research Office final application due date will not be eligible for a University of Newcastle Near Miss grant.

Practitioner Fellowship

The Practitioner Fellowships Scheme provides support for active clinicians and public health or health services professionals to undertake research that is linked to their practice or policy. The Scheme is not intended to support academic researchers who may have clinical/public health responsibilities.

Practitioner Fellowships are open to all active clinicians and public health or health services professionals in Australia who have a sustained track record of significant research output as demonstrated in peer-reviewed literature, and a strong commitment to quality research outputs as judged relative to opportunity.

NHMRC expects applicants to plan to combine clinical/public health duties with their research, and be able to demonstrate that the research associated with the Practitioner Fellowship is designed to maximise the application or transfer of outputs into policy or practice.

Practitioner Fellowships offered by NHMRC are prestigious and highly competitive awards for high performing researchers. Recipients of Practitioner Fellowships are generally performing in the top 10% of their field of research.

Please refer to the NHMRC webpage for further information.

The submission dates for application review by the Research Office are as follows:

  • EOI emailed to Angela McPherson: Monday 7th January 2013
  • Draft applications due to Research Office: 10am Monday 21 January 2013 
  • Final applications due to Research Office*: 10am Tuesday 29 January 2013
  • NHMRC submission deadline: 5pm Wednesday 13 February 2013

TRIP Fellowship

Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) is a new early-to-mid career fellowship scheme to support the translation of research findings into clinical practice.

Please refer to the NHMRC webpage for further information.

  • NHMRC Opens: Wednesday 6 February 2013
  • Draft application due to the Research Office: 10am Thursday 18 April 2013
  • Final applications due to the Research Office: 10am Monday 29 April 2013
  • NHMRC submission deadline: 5pm Wednesday 1 May 2013

Career Development Fellowship

This scheme aims to further develop Australian health and medical researchers early in their career. It will enable investigators to establish themselves as independent, self-directed researchers; expand capacity for biomedical, clinical, public health and health service delivery research, and for evidence-based policy development in Australian health systems; and encourage the translation of research outcomes into practice.

Please refer to the NHMRC webpage for further information.

  • EOI emailed to Angela McPherson: Monday 7th January 2013
  • Draft applications due to Research Office: 10am Monday 4 February 2013
  • Final applications due to Research Office: 10am Wednesday 20th February 2013
  • NHMRC submission deadline: 5pm Wednesday 6 March 2013

Early Career Fellowship

The purpose of this scheme is to provide opportunities for Australian researchers to undertake research that is both of major importance in its field and of benefit to Australian health. Early Career Fellowships provide a vehicle for training in basic research either in Australia or overseas (where appropriate), to enable Fellows to work on research projects with nominated advisers. Awards are offered to a limited number of persons of outstanding ability who wish to make research a significant component of their career.

Please refer to the NHMRC webpage for further information.

  • Draft applications due to Research Office: 10am Thursday 18 April 2013
  • Final applications due to Research Office: 10am Friday 26 April 2013
  • NHMRC submission deadline: 5pm Wednesday 1 May 2013

Postgraduate Scholarships

The aim of this scheme is to support outstanding Australian health and medical graduates early in their career so that they can be trained to conduct research that is internationally competitive and develop a capacity for original independent research. This is usually achieved by NHMRC funding successful applicants to attain a research based postgraduate degree, which may be a PhD, a PhD equivalent degree, or a Masters Degree. 

Please refer to the NHMRC webpage for further information.

  • Draft applications due to Research Office: 10am Wednesday 19 June 2013
  • Final applications due to Research Office: 10am Wednesday 26 June 2013
  • NHMRC submission deadline: 5pm Wednesday 3 July 2013

Alzheimer Foundation Fellowships (4)

The AAR Dementia Research Grants are seeding grants for new researchers, valued up to $30,000 (exclusive of GST), to be allocated for research in a dementia-relevant area. In 2011, five grants will be offered. Grants are awarded in both biological/non-clinical and clinical/psychosocial research areas. This year, one grant will be awarded to reflect the Consumer Dementia Research Network priority areas.

Please refer to the Alzheimer Foundation webpage for further information.